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Pocket Casts: Podcast Player App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024
Pocket Casts: Podcast Player app received 76 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Pocket Casts: Podcast Player? Can you share your negative thoughts about pocket casts: podcast player?
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✓ Good but needs to be betterI’ve been using Pocket Casts for a few years back when Apple Podcasts changed its interface. Pocket Casts has a great interface and it’s easy to navigate/find new podcasts. What bums me about and is going to make me elsewhere is the constant audio jumping and cutting during an ep. The podcast could be going along fine but then all of a sudden it jumps ahead and if you try to go back you realize the content isn’t there. Or ending abruptly or randomly repeating. I’ve put up with this for awhile but lately it’s been happening in almost any podcast episode I listen to. I switch over to Apple Podcasts to be sure the missing or jumping content is not the podcast itself and it never is. Not sure why this happens! Hope there’s a fix being developed but for now I’ll have to use another app to listen to podcasts..Version: 7.45
✓ Enough alreadyPocket Cast has been my go-to podcast app for quite some time but have just removed the app from all devices. . So tired of all this Rainbow Mafia nonsense..Version: 7.39
✓ One step forward, two backRearranging up next has become super buggy and slow. What tf was wrong with it before? Why change it? Pressing the rearrange hamburger now doesn’t register half the time, haptic feedback seems messed, and when it does work, there’s some horrible glitchy animation to a tiny icon behind your thumb and you can’t see what’s being dragged around! I sure hope that wasn’t an intentional change..Version: 7.4
✓ No longer goodQuality has definitely gone down. Not sure if it’s new software engineers or something else but for sure not the same as it used to be. You press on a podcast episode and it won’t play. Nothing happens. You wait and wait and still nothing. Kill the app restart and nothing. Then 30 min later after you’ve given up it just starts playing out of no where. What bothers me most is when you tweet your complaint or send feedback they respond pretty quick asking “please give us details so we can fix the problem”. Well…it just doesn’t work. I’m not going to troubleshoot off your engineer to figure out where he/she went wrong. It’s like Microsoft where they don’t really test their software and then just rely on “feedback” to fix ongoing bugs. My suggestion: get some real engineers, preferably on the same continent and actually test your product daily and don’t just sit back and wait for feedback. Google podcasts works flawlessly and I will be using thst from now on. I’m not a test subject and expect my software to work each time and every time..Version: 7.18.1
✓ BELIEVE the negative reviewsYou will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than these developers. That may seem harsh, but it’s the truth. They love to take your money and give you nothing back for it. “You paid us money for the app when we promised no subscriptions or freemiums? Hah, thanks for the dough, sucker, we’re going free and not even giving you a trial of our now locked behind a paywall features!” Ethical developers have always grandfathered in purchasers of their apps when the go subscription, but these guys failed ethics in college. Just look at how many disgruntled customers have the same issue that they say they never heard of. Now, as for the app itself, it’s a miracle if it plays the full podcast. If it works on CarPlay, it’s another miracle! If the audio doesn’t constantly cut out, holy cow, call the Pope because this app is only four miracles away from sainthood! Maybe they’ve locked usability behind the paywall, as well. To summarize, don’t use this. Don’t even gaze in its direction. And especially don’t give these shady thieves a dollar of your money. You could spend it much better on a cheeseburger, thumb tacks, an empty cardboard box, or just by burning it and blowing the ashes in the wind..Version: 7.19.3
✓ Starting to SlipI was a dedicated PocketCasts fan for about a decade. Unfortunately now it’s giving me issues with custom a Patreon feed and it’s missing some functionality that I would like to have. It’s still good just not necessarily the best like it used to be..Version: 7.47
✓ Features Are Great, But Won’t Stop CrashingI got this app because I wanted the automatic downloading and queuing features, and I’ve found those incredibly valuable. I can have my favorite podcasts automatically play next as soon as episodes are available and maintain a queue more easily than I can in the Apple Podcasts app. Also, the more flexible playback rates and Trim Silence features are fantastic. I would give this app 5 stars if it didn’t randomly crash all the time. It was whenever the most recent significant aesthetic update happened (the old version worked well), but now it will crash while I’m listening to a podcast and have my phone in my pocket or connected to my car. I literally do nothing to provoke it. The interface also freezes sometimes and forces me to quit it and restart, which is frustrating since the mechanics of playing back from an RSS feed don’t seem to be the most complicated part of this app..Version: 7.3.1
✓ With respect, don’t force Pride month on meI’ve used Pocket Cast for years. Probably since around 2016 or so. Today I updated the app and noticed that they changed the icon to rainbow colors to celebrate pride month. I have homosexual family and friends in my life whom I could not love more, but as I’ve explained to them in many charitable and mutually respectful discussions over the years, I do not like pride month being forced down my throat. FWIW I’m Catholic and do not expect there to be a “Catholic month” pushed down others throats, either. It would be so wonderful if businesses, sports teams, etc could just focus on what they do best and let their customers decide if, when, and how they’d like to celebrate a particular “festivity”. I noticed that Pocket Casts did not change their icon to celebrate Black History month, St. Patrick’s Day, or Christmas, so I can only deduct that this is just more woke garbage being forced down my throat. The good news is that there are dozens of excellent podcast app alternatives available, which I plan to explore once I conclude this review and delete Pocket Casts from my phone. So long and thank you for the memories..Version: 7.39
✓ Logo not goodJust focus on what you are doing and don’t get political..Version: 7.39
✓ PriceyWas happy to pay 10-15$ per year for cross platform syncing and stuff. New pricing of 50$ per year is way too much for podcast and I am leaving. Experience with app was otherwise great..Version: 7.49
✓ Changing features for the sake of itWhat is wrong with app producers? Just when they have a perfect product they have to change the features just ‘cos they can and are bored. Who thought that auto-archive, aka auto-delete, was a good idea? Yes, you too could listen to a podcast, have it disappear before your eyes, and have to re-download it without even knowing what happened. Get a grip guys..Version: 7.0
✓ Needs offline and streaming support for Watch.I kept using this app even after the redesign ruined the UX and introduced a lot of bugs, because I had paid the one off cost for ‘lifetime’ access to the desktop app. Then one day, that’s no longer ‘lifetime’ access but only 3 years access as part of ‘PocketCasts Plus’. After telling everyone to deal with it they finally caved in and gave people the lifetime access they had already paid for. Pocketcasts needs to support Apple Watch offline playback and streaming before I'm coming back to it..Version: 7.5
✓ IconWhy are jamming your icon down people’s throats?.Version: 7.39
✓ Once great now not so muchThis was the best podcast app around. But the v7 update has made so many functions harder to do (more clicks). Also what is archiving. I don't want podcasts I've listened to to disappear from the list because I often go back and check details, just mark them as played and delete the download. I never want to archive them ever. I really just want the old version back. It was so much better and while not perfect its flaws were much more livable..Version: 7.1
✓ Syncing is still really bad if you listen on two devices.There are many good things about PocketCast (Video Support, Playback Effects, background downloading, notifications, etc.). But there are three things that bother me. 1) If you listen on an iPad and and iPhone regularly your syncing will be messed up all the time. For instance, open iPad app and watch a video show. Then open on your phone later an audio show and stop. Perhaps that evening you open your iPad again to resume the video you were watching that morning. It will sync the iPad back to your iPhone the play position of your audio podcast from that morning, not where you left off on your iPhone later in the day. I’m constantly opening Pocket Casts on my phone to find that my listening position was reverted back 20-30 minutes earlier than I left off. 2) I think the playback screen has an unnecessary bar at the bottom with the tools. Remove that bar and just put the icons for playback effects and others without it. 3) The cover art for the podcast is not centered properly on the iPhone X, XS, and XS Max iPhone. That’s just poor design. Please Russell and Co. fix these problems..Version: 7.3.2
✓ Great app with some issuesI really like this podcast app, one of my favourites I’ve used. However, I have two issues. Firstly is sync issues between devices and general issues of podcasts no loading. It’s inconsistent (sometimes works, sometimes doesn’t) and doesn’t seem to be an easy fix. Second is that you can only search for the name of the podcast and not the title of individual episodes. Really infuriating when I want to find people talking about a specific topic!.Version: 7.20.2
✓ Seperate listening playbackHi. With the same account is it possible to use two devices which allow each device to pickup the podcast last listened to in that device rather than picking up from the last podcast listened to on another device? Eg. using same account i listen to TWIT on iphone and Filmcast on ipad; however if i listen to filmcast on ipad, next time i start pocketcasts on iphone it resumes filmcast episode from ipad..Version: 7.8.4
✓ Worse with every updateThis was my go to podcast app for years. The last 1 year of updates has slowly broken the app. It now does not function whatsoever with CarPlay, often crashing, not starting podcasts when clicked, not able to show any lists of podcasts and failing constantly to load. As a former paying customer, it’s also insulting they went to an in app purchase model, effectively taking the money I spent on the app and providing nothing in return. App is deleted for now..Version: 7.8.3
✓ Usually great, often flawedLike another reviewer, StarlaThornhill, for like two years i've been experiencing the issue with the playback timer. it seems to mostly happen when i'm using airplay2 to listen to podcasts on my home speakers... if i pause playback and then later resume, somehow the playback position timer loses its mind, and it just causes havoc. i've contacted support several times, and it always winds up going nowhere. this is very frustrating, because i feel the app has the most user-friendly interface of any of the major podcast apps on the market. most of them have some weird UI gimmick to try and stand out, but it really just winds up feeling clunky and dumbed-down. i hope the pocket casts team can figure out the playback progress bugs, because i'm really running out of patience with what's otherwise a pretty perfect app..Version: 7.19.3
✓ Disappointing Price IncreaseCan’t believe this app went from $18.99 annually here in Canada to $44.99!! This went from an easy sub renewal every year to pushing me to Castro. Shame because I’ve been a subscriber since 2017 and this is the best all-around podcast app. But this is a crazy price hike. If Castro and Overcast eventually go to this price then I’ll be back. Until then, I’ll save 60% of my money for a 10% worse experience on Castro..Version: 7.36
✓ Superfluous Logo ChangeApps should not change their logo for ideological reasons..Version: 7.39
✓ Hard to personalizeUnlike Stitcher , I found this app very difficult to customize. Damn hard to get it to download and play podcasts according to my needs. After a month of hassle I’m leaving.Version: 7.46
✓ Favorite podcast app but…This is my favorite podcast app by far. The ability to add filters and the huge amount of control I have over what I play next is fantastic. And pocket casts actually shows the older episodes on my “up next” list on Apple CarPlay, something that Apple Podcasts refuses to do (for no good reason I can think of). However, I’ve been running into an error that makes it difficult to continue to use this app. Sometimes, when I’m listening to an episode, the player will jump back to a portion of the podcast I’ve already listened to. The problem is that when this happens, the timer/progress bar (scrubber? Idk tech names for UI elements) doesn’t update, and the podcast will stop playing when it reaches the end of the timer, rather than the end of the recording, which means I can’t listen to the end of the episode!!! The only way to fix it is to force close the app and then start playing the episode again, but it always starts playing at some random point so I have to spend time looking for where I got cut off. I mostly listen to podcasts while I work, which means my hands are busy, so I either have to stop what I’m doing to fix the app, or miss the end of my episode (and I listen to a lot of true crime—the end is the best part). This would easily be a 5 star app if I didn’t have to deal with this pretty significant inconvenience all the time..Version: 7.18
✓ Great for phone- Terrible for car playI love this app when using on my phone. Using with apple car play is another story. The app continually crashes making listening in the car impossible. I’d be about to work around this if I didn’t listen in the car 50% of the time..Version: 7.8.6
✓ Apple watch streaming not goodDon’t waste money paying for the app if it is just for Apple Watch use. Half the time I use it on my watch the app won’t refresh and ends up ruining a workout as I have to stop what I am doing to get things to work. Won’t refresh over wifi and generally a let down. The app is good on the iPhone but a waste on Apple Watch.Version: 7.28.1
✓ Constantly nagging to pay for an app I've already paid for.This used to be a great app. I bought it 7-8 years ago and it's changed a lot since. It's constantly asking me to purchase premium, despite already having bought the app. I haven't used it in a long time, I've just opened it for the first time in months and it's asking me up upgrade. That's the last straw for me. I'm uninstalling..Version: 7.53.1
✓ Bad logo choice.I am deleting the app because of the new logo. No thank you!.Version: 7.39
✓ Bad update, unprofessional responseI was glad to find Pocket Casts at first. It was a decent cross-platform app, with a couple weird quirks, but the best option for me. I opted into the beta and wasn’t as fond of it, but decided to give it some time for me to adjust and explore. Some basic, useful features were lacking or implemented strangely and the UI change was a huge step back, considerably less intuitive. Unfortunately, they didn’t really improve on any of these problems for the release despite feedback from users. I know it’s impossible to give every user what they want. Plus, so many users are too entitled and demanding. That doesn’t warrant not listening to them at all, or responding flippantly and condescendingly to feedback. Many of the developer responses have been deleted because it “doesn’t represent who they are” (except ... yes it does, because that’s literally how they’re representing themselves). I’m not surprised to see the drop in their ratings, which they reset recently in hopes of erasing the negative ones, I guess? They already have the money of existing users, so maybe they don’t feel like it’s as important to respect them. But I know I will no longer be recommending Pocket Casts to anyone else. Fortunately, there are cross-platform alternatives I look forward to checking out instead, like Castbox..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Going to a different ap because of gambling and alcohol adsWhen I first started using this app it was great. But more and more ads with a lot of gambling and alcohol ads plus these new incredibly annoying short ads that just drop in the middle of a podcast often in the middle of a sentence with no warning and completely break up a conversation. Nope. I’m done..Version: 7.26
✓ Plays podcasts and a little moreOkay podcast app. Dislike apps that go from premium to free and offer nothing to people that paid for the app initially…anyway, may not matter as the app is low on features that actually work! Do you have a podcast that changes cover art? You’ll always see the first cover on those podcasts. No idea why this app can’t change covers but I can assure you, it won’t. Do you have a podcast that has fun little teaser clips from the episode that are released as promotions or Alexa Briefs? Well, you’ll have to listen to them or manually delete them because this app has no way to prevent these from being downloaded. The only redeeming quality of this app is you can load mp3 and listen through the app. Only needed since Apple jacked the directory with 14.5 and podcasts with a lot of old episodes only show recent shows now..Version: 7.18
✓ Locks up often - unreliableI like this app however it is too unreliable. I was glad to see compatibility with Apple shortcuts however that is next to useless as this app locks up all the time and has to be manually restarted. Has done this for at least a year across multiple iphones and iOS versions..Version: 7.5.4
✓ Filter problemsLike this app overall but I have problems with the filters. I want a filter containing new episodes of podcasts of my choosing. Simple enough right? But even though I’ve checked off certain podcasts for this, only episodes from some of the selected podcasts show up in the filter. Is this a bug?.Version: 7.19.2
✓ Abysmal ChangesLike many others this was the greatest app available until the changes..Version: 7.5.4
✓ This app used to be so good, what happened?I’ve been using it for years, but in the past few months I’ve noticed bugs like episodes appearing to be longer than they are. For example: a podcast that’s 30min long would show as 1h and it would play til the middle of the file and then crash the app. Other minor bugs like not updating metadata if it gets changed after the first time it was downloaded, etc. feels like the whole testing team went on vacations at the same time… Please fix those. I don’t really want to change apps 😅.Version: 7.41
✓ Listening progress does not saveReally like the podcast app but recently there's been a bug that does not save your listening progress during an episode. So when you listen to the episode, three progress goes back to where you started before listening rather to where you left off..Version: 7.19.1
✓ No longer greatOnce great, this simple app has fallen from grace in the pursuit of money with the latest update. The basic bookmarks feature that has been part of the app since launch has suddenly been removed to be placed behind a paywall for monthly subscription which is laughable. I understand the necessity for a business to make money but this is not how to do it - you need to incentivise customers to buy in by offering more features, not by taking away basics and expecting us to pay for reinstatement. Deleted,.Version: 7.54
✓ Fine on iOS, but not cross platformOn the surface this is a really solid podcast app, especially when compared to the smoking car crash that is the official Apple Podcast client. It has a clear front page of artwork with a badge on each podcast showing how many updated episodes there are. Once playing it can skip silent parts, jump 30 seconds, queue up what's next, and change playback speed. So far so good. Then I tried to use the desktop client. Syncing been the two is basically broken and all of that nice functionality they iOS app has is gone. The desktop app is really just an incredibly bare bones webapp in a Window. So if you're a 100% iOS user then give this a go, but if you're a cross platform user this is one to skip..Version: 7.18
✓ Always liked PC. But preventing me from changing my icon, because PC decided to celebrate P month.Not impressed..Version: 7.39
✓ Why?Why do some podcast take forever to download ( if at all) yet others download almost in an instant. Despite being the same size????? I love the app but am thinking of finding another. This is getting frustrating..Version: 7.19.3
✓ Seriously.....what has happened to this app?Prior to the recent update it was brilliant. It was so easy to use. Unfortunately, the latest update has screwed it completely. The new "archiving" feature is a mess and it is difficult to tell what podcasts are downloaded or not. I can't seem to have episodes deleted the way I once could. You now have them delete (or archive??) up to a week after you play them. Navigating around the app is confusing and no longer intuitive. It's like the podcast version of Windows 8! You seem to be tapping and swiping all over the place in a non-logical order to get it to do what you want. Syncing is not right either. Often find a podcast has re-synced back to where it was on another device rather than have the other device catch up to the new position where you are up to. Why couldn't you have left it alone....it was brilliant? Now it's a mess..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Great app but needs some tweakingHi guys; love using the app but can’t seem to even open the help and feedback section - just get a loading screen which then eventually freezes. My main reason for contact is that your search function within the app doesn’t seem to work; so within an episode / series if you want to search for a particular episode name, type in what you like; but nothing comes up - I have done this even when the episode is listed a few below just to test; and it doesn’t isolate the name or bring that episode up at all, - just shows ‘no results’ Hope these issues will be fixed in the next update? Cheers.Version: 7.19.3
✓ I’m sad that I have to switch to another appI’ve been using that app for well over two years. Since then, it’s been my go to for podcasts because it has a great interface and is easy to use. However, I don’t know why but I’ve been having so many problems with it lately. The main one is that podcasts won’t load. I don’t always have space on my phone to download my podcasts since I take a lot of photos and video on a day to day basis, meaning I stream a lot of my content. For some reason, I always have problems with podcasts from this app recently. It’ll load a couple of seconds, then it will refuse to play anything for a while, then all of a sudden it’ll start working again. It’s not like I’m losing internet connection, as it will even happen on WiFi. Sometimes it’ll even do it with downloaded podcasts. Then I have even more problems with CarPlay. If I plug my phone in to use pocket casts, sometimes it’ll just completely freeze everything on my phone until I unplug and restart my phone. It’s only with this app. That all being said, I still enjoyed my time with this app and I loved its simplicity, which is why I’m sad to see it go now that I’m switching to another app that doesn’t give me these problems. I’ll come back eventually if these bugs get fixed. Till then, so long my friend..Version: 7.8.6
✓ Frustrating experienceSome good features but the simple stuff fails me time and time again. For example some podcasts can take over a minute to stay playing. Others play immediately. Also when I stop a podcast and come back later the podcast won’t play. It seems stuck. The play/pause button remains in a play state and fails to respond to touch. I get haptic feedback but nothing else. Force quit is the only way to remove. Please get the simple stuff to work..Version: 7.3.1
✓ Switched away because of the redesignI see I’m in good company in my displeasure with the new design. It’s so frustrating because the old app was my go to for years..Version: 7.3.1
✓ Usability nightmare... for no good reasonI’ve used pocket casts for years as a paying customer, and loved it — until the redesign. Now the most simple things, like marking an episode as “played”, require confusing gestures and interactions. I’ve counted at least three distinct ways to mark something as “played”, all available in different contexts. Swipe this way, no, that way, oh wait, no, it’s the other way. It’s a complete nightmare. Interacting with this app is now like trying to find your way through a maze in complete darkness. If that wasn’t bad enough it also freezes, crashes, and syncing is often unreliable. The previous version was fantastic — it was my favourite app. Now I despise it. I’m furious at the developers for ruining something that was so great. Such a disappointment..Version: 7.2.2
✓ This App Should Listen To It’s UsersThis App is so great yet it falls short of being game changing. Features like episode specific search make it hard to find more tailored content and the biggest let down is that although they allow settings for those wanting to fall asleep, they have missed a golden opportunity by failing to add any waking up features such as a morning podcast alarm with a slowly rising volume. On Twitter they have said they do not make an alarm clock yet they have clearly embraced the idea of their product being a pseudo white noise machine, which one might argue is far less respectful. It would be a beautiful thing to have Pocket Casts be apart of it’s user’s morning routine with an easy feature addition, but clearly they do not want the functional technology that they have developed to be used in a functional and engaging way. They do not want to seem to give consumers what they truly want..Version: 7.2
✓ The new icon is uglyThe old red icon was better. The new one looks like it was designed by a 4 years old. It's a mess..Version: 7.40
✓ Redesign is difficultThe app seems quite complicated and but intuitive anymore..Version: 7.2.3
✓ What happenedBeen using this app for a year, really enjoyed the features for a free account. Since last update, all the accounts I follow are automatically downloading, even tho I have them set NOT to download. No way to contact support on the app 🤯.Version: 7.18.1
✓ What was so good ;-)This used to be my favourite podcasting app by a mile but since they changed the user UI it's not. I just can’t understand why they had to change this amazing & much loved podcatcher app. I understand change is good & sometimes it’s needed but just not necessary. Just look at the recent review for pocket cast & you will see that I’m not alone. Please add a switch for us that don’t want this change to letgo back to use the old interface..Version: 7.2.2
✓ Crashing more oftenMy experience from using pocket casts for years is it’s become less reliable over the last year. The player freezes, the app crashes, podcasts go back to a previous position. It’s a shame because the design is good, but I’m finding using the app increasingly frustrating. Also, the Apple Watch app doesn’t work at all and has been buggy for ages..Version: 7.5
✓ Poor support and wonky appApparently, the developer has decided to only provide support through their forum. That is, unless you are a monthly subscriber to their app. I paid for features long time ago that they now give away for free but apparently that doesn’t matter. Overall, this is a good app however, it has a very bad habit of silently logging you out of your account. This is a major problem because you have no way of knowing this happened. Weeks or months later when you login again, you will lose all of the history of podcast you played, any new subscriptions, and you will end up re-downloading old podcast episodes. You might think that’s not a big deal but I have more than 24 podcast subscriptions and it is a giant pita to recover from this problem. This bug has been present for years and has gotten noticeably worse in 2023..Version: 7.53.1
✓ Why the antisocial bright style?The new colours of this app are too feminine tbh; can’t have flowers all over body, it’s just not me. Gonna have to use your competition.Version: 7.41
✓ AVOID! Bought app before subscription, +30GB DATA ABUSE!30GB of data... Not the first time it has happened, and it’s absolutely ridiculous. Especially since I originally paid for the app before they decided to change to a subscription service, and receive none of the features I paid for. I have turned off every “Download” or “files” feature, so it is not user error. I uncheck the “In progress” and “played” options in storage and data usage as well, only to see them turned back on immediately after exiting. If this is a bug it is a hell of an costly one on my end. After getting ripped off after buying the app already on multiple devices that was then switched to a subscription service, it’s nice to add the 30+GB of monthly data on top of that. I just hope that the same hasn’t happened to the people I recommended this app too not long ago. As for now, just another company totally fine with ripping paying customers off with a blatant money grab! DO NOT DOWNLOAD!.Version: 7.8.5
✓ Why?Randomly changing the color of the app so It’s harder to find…...Version: 7.39
✓ Support totally ignore youLoved this app used for over 3 years but i have had an issue on the app after switching back to iPhone of my all my subscribed podcasts disappearing - emailed support nearly three weeks ago and had once response in those three weeks telling me to log in and out - that didn’t work as well as reinstalling - disgraceful service after paying for the app and the web player - emailed and emailed back asking for help and got TOTALLY ignored - I wouldn’t recommend they don’t care about their customers at all - probably something to do with Shiftjelly being bought out - another example of a great independent app getting ruined. Avoid - use Overcast.Version: 7.2.3
✓ Lengthy loading timesTakes me 10+ minutes before it will start playing. After pressing the play button it takes obscene amounts of time for the podcast to begin loading. Do not recommend.Version: 7.7
✓ Regret that I bought yearly subscription.I really regret buying yearly subscription. Each time I restart the phone (for instance each two weeks or when the phone goes dead etc) all my podcasts and audiobooks disappear. Then I have to sign off and sign back on again. Then and it’s the most annoying I have to wait for 48 hours for my subscriptions to sync. Such a toss. There are much better podcasts app there don’t buy it you will regret it..Version: 7.19.2
✓ Needs this featurePlease, please, add a way to make play lists out of SINGLE episodes from different podcasts! I will happily pay for this very basic feature that no podcast apps seem to have thought of. So, for example if i want to learn all about, say, the history of scaffolding, or the 1830s east africa, or the science behind algae, OR whatever, i can just make a playlist from 9 different pods with the one episdoe from each on the subject that i want and call the playlist, "algae". Also, when searching for a term: a way to hide half the results coming from one podcast- "the Daily" (or whatever) and a way to search by date- i.e. i don't get episodes from 2017 when i search for "middle east" unless I want to see older stuff. Seriously, fix this one (or two) thing(s) and i will change to 5 stars and be your most ardent supporter :).Version: 7.52.1
✓ Missing basic feature like landscapeThe app doesn’t support landscape mode for moments like when docked in the car. It also doesn’t let you remove individual podcasts from a filter.Version: 7.23
✓ GreatSimply great. Just. Get. It. Edit May 5 2015: I have changed the rating from 5- to 3-star because in the last week or so, the 'Up Next' feature (i.e ability to stack episodes for sequential play) has stopped working. I am currently listening to a long series of 15-minute streaming podcasts and the loss of this feature is annoying. Used to work, doesn't now..Version: 5.0.1
✓ Poor support - and will not download over mobile networkWhen you try to get support for this app you are warned they are a small team so please don’t ask if you don’t have a real need. Well I had a real need because it would not download podcasts over my mobile network in the U.K. nor would the Discover function work. I asked for help without a response three times. On the fourth occasion I was asked to send the debug text which I did. I have never heard back in spite of another reminder. I have to assume they simply don’t want to acknowledge there’s a problem or are just rude and unpleasant. In all other respects the app is good and I’d use it if they provided decent support and fixed the problem. I’d actually pay for it if they did that. It’s better than Overcast which extracts a subscription..Version: 7.18
✓ Why force the icon?Haven’t you learned anything from what’s been happening for the past couple months to certain brands?.Version: 7.39
✓ So much good but one fatal flawI like so much about this app, and if you subscribe to a small number of pods you might enjoy it. But I subscribe to a lot. And there is no way to group them- if you subscribe to 100 podcasts they are just all listed on one big page. Now, there are filters but they are for episodes. So you can say, give me all I played episodes, or all episodes longer than an hour, and it mixes them all into a playlist. But if you just want to group your news shows, your fiction stories, your true crime, etc- no way to do that. I quit using this app after the fastest way for me to find the show I was looking for became too try and subscribe to it again and that would jump me to the page to play the next episode. And this isn’t a flaw- they want people to use filters and not folders. I don’t know why, and this is a long-standing complaint. I’ll occasionally check back to see if anything changed, but until then it’s just become unusable for me..Version: 7.15
✓ Love the appBut does anyone else have problems with playback sounding as though there’s no punctuation? I have tried adjusting the speed but that just makes the narrator sound slow and doesn’t change the fact that sentences blend into each other with no pauses. It is literally like someone is reading and not taking a breath. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong as the playback speed is normal..Version: 7.8.6
✓ Doesn't remember progressEverytime I open the app it's got the progress through my latest listen wrong. It's so consistently wrong I can't believe no one else seems to be reporting this..Version: 7.18.1
✓ Good UI but need episode searchLayout is nice and much sleeker than standard iOS app - but had to download a different player because sometimes I want to listen to a podcast on a specific subject - or popular episodes from producers I don’t normally listen to. This app is very focussed on shows - so if you have a few shows you listen to regularly it’s great. But if you are more about episodes not so good..Version: 7.8.5
✓ Disappointing updateThe version 7 update has completely changed the interface, making it quite confusing compared to before. This may not be an issue for new users, but I feel features and settings are just harder to find now. Furthermore, version 7 has broken syncing. I’m now looking at alternative podcast apps that won’t be as frustrating to use..Version: 7.0.2
✓ A constant upgrade to premium loopOpen the podcast in anything but this app. I was listening to a podcast on a browser and I wanted to control the replay. This ‘app’ was suggested. So I down load it. Now I am downloading the podcast on apple I was definitely in the app, i had to search in the app for the podcast. The podcast would not play until i decided on sending money. I watched it on apple podcasts..Version: 7.19.3
✓ Re-reviewApparently my old 1-star review from before it went free was deleted so quickly. It functions mostly fine, but, there are a bunch of bugs that are infuriating. It also takes forever to add new episodes when they release on subscribed podcasts. To name a few bugs, it constantly tells me the wrong progress through an episode, I might be 20 minutes into a podcast but it tells me I’m over an hour in. Sometimes when I skip back 10 seconds to rewind, I am instead skipped forwards multiple minutes and have to scroll back. It constantly removes episodes from my up next queue so I have to re-ad them..Version: 7.56
✓ Full of bugsI've used this app since 2017, I actually paid for it. Use to work great but now it just is full of bugs. Biggest one with the newest update is the folders now can't be sorted. Plus podcast you subscribe to..just disappears. Not great for paying almost 22 bucks a year to use this buggy podcast app. It should be 0 stars..Version: 7.59
✓ Rapidly declining in quality and functionalityThis used to be the best podcatcher around, and I’ve recommended it to a number of people, but over the last few months there have been persistent glitches. 1. The app freezes but the audio continues to play. It’s an issue that you don’t notice until you need to pause or skip backwards, at which point you realise that it’s frozen halfway through the last episode you were listening to, and when you restart the app you have to figure out where you were up to in the episode you were listening to. 2. Stuttering audio sometimes occurs even with no other apps open. 3. App crashes frequently enough to be annoying. I don’t know if this is an issue of the app becoming free and getting increased traffic, I am not a developer. But it’s becoming increasingly irritating and I may need to search for something new, which would be extremely aggravating..Version: 7.8
✓ Another App Shoves The Woke Agenda Down Our ThroatsI don’t care if you want to make a rainbow icon for those that care about Pride month, but to force it on those of us that don’t by changing our default icon to a pride one (without consent ) is going too far. You could have left the default icon alone and have the app ask users if they want to opt in to celebrate Pride month. That would have been fine, but changing it automatically without letting people decide for themselves is an aggro move against many of your users. There are many users of your app that I imagine don’t realize or know how to change the look of their icon away from the Pride one and now will be stuck with an icon that they may not appreciate. Please respect everyone. I am perfectly fine with there being an option to have a special icon celebrating that month but respect but is a two-way street..Version: 7.39
✓ The new version is awfulWhat have you done? You have ruined my favourite app.Version: 7.0
✓ Disappointed with v7Been using this app for years, and have been really let down by the most recent version. All I want to do is download (not stream) podcasts, then listen to them, and the UX for that is poor. I dont know what I’ve listened to - what’s an archived podcast? Will have to look it up bit it shouldn’t be this hard. Sometimes when I press play the pod doesn’t start and it’s just frustrating. Gutted as I loved the old version - the app is starting to feel bloated. Keep it simple..Version: 7.1
✓ Paid for the app, then they changed to subscriptionI paid for the app, then they made it free with a paid subscription. So I paid for nothing, and got no benefit..Version: 7.39
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